WCZ

On the day the Xbox 360 was released me, jochta and Northern Deity played
PGR3 online and it was AWESOME. OMG look at the graphics!

Last night me, jochta and Northern Deity went back to PGR3 and whilst the
graphics are no longer AWESOME (I thought it held up well, jochta thought it
was rubbish) we still had a fun old evening of gaming. It took me a race or
two to get back up to speed with how you drive in PGR but after that we had
a lot of very close racing which you don't seem to get in the Forza games.
PGR3 is a bit limited in tracks so after about a hour we moved onto....

...PGR4 where we spent about half an hour trying to figure out how to get a
private lobby. Once that was done we had a few close races around the new
tracks in Macau and St Petersburg before calling it a night. PGR4 is a bit
better graphically but the extra tracks are what make it a better online
game.

The most surprising thing was that there are still people playing PGR3 and 4
online. And there are still idiots who think it's fun to try and spin you
round all the time - he got kicked.

Both are still very good games but we could have done with a few more
players. If you've got either game and fancy a retro session post in here
and I'll set something up.

--

WCZ

gunthergloop

On 12/01/2012 10:23, HarpingOn wrote:
> On 12/01/2012 10:16, WCZ wrote:
>> Both are still very good games but we could have done with a few more
>> players. If you've got either game and fancy a retro session post in
>> here and I'll set something up.
>>
>
> I don't mind - but I'd have to buy PGR 4, and I won't have any cars. I
> had completr0red it in a previous life.
>
> If I can find the game for < £10, I might well.

I have PGR4. If I can tear myself from Battlefield 3 and not playing
AssassCre Rev on PS3 I wouldn't mind a bit of a go on this.
Not sure how long I could keep at it, but I don't mind coming last for
an hour or so.

Name the date.

-Kevin.

jochta

On 12/01/2012 10:16, WCZ wrote:
> On the day the Xbox 360 was released me, jochta and Northern Deity
> played PGR3 online and it was AWESOME. OMG look at the graphics!
>
> Last night me, jochta and Northern Deity went back to PGR3 and whilst
> the graphics are no longer AWESOME (I thought it held up well, jochta
> thought it was rubbish) we still had a fun old evening of gaming. It
> took me a race or two to get back up to speed with how you drive in PGR
> but after that we had a lot of very close racing which you don't seem to
> get in the Forza games. PGR3 is a bit limited in tracks so after about a
> hour we moved onto....
>

The road textures were surprisingly bad in comparison to more recent
racers. PGR3 still plays fine but as WCZ says there aren't very many
interesting tracks although if we had a bigger group there are the other
game modes (e.g. team stuff, cat n mouse etc.) we could play.

> ..PGR4 where we spent about half an hour trying to figure out how to get
> a private lobby. Once that was done we had a few close races around the
> new tracks in Macau and St Petersburg before calling it a night. PGR4 is
> a bit better graphically but the extra tracks are what make it a better
> online game.
>
> The most surprising thing was that there are still people playing PGR3
> and 4 online. And there are still idiots who think it's fun to try and
> spin you round all the time - he got kicked.
>

You would have thought that for old games the idiots would not be
playing them still. But apparently not. Why do they bother?

> Both are still very good games but we could have done with a few more
> players. If you've got either game and fancy a retro session post in
> here and I'll set something up.
>

Well done

--
John Talbot
XBL, PSN, Twitter, Everything : jochta
Blog & Gaming Diary : http://www.buttonsofmymind.co.uk/
"Leading the fight..."

Toby Newman

On 2012-01-12, WCZ <dav123@willnotwork.com> wrote:
> On the day the Xbox 360 was released me, jochta and Northern Deity played
> PGR3 online and it was AWESOME. OMG look at the graphics!
>
> Last night me, jochta and Northern Deity went back to PGR3 and whilst the
> graphics are no longer AWESOME (I thought it held up well, jochta thought it
> was rubbish) we still had a fun old evening of gaming. It took me a race or
> two to get back up to speed with how you drive in PGR but after that we had
> a lot of very close racing which you don't seem to get in the Forza games.
> PGR3 is a bit limited in tracks so after about a hour we moved onto....
>
> ..PGR4 where we spent about half an hour trying to figure out how to get a
> private lobby. Once that was done we had a few close races around the new
> tracks in Macau and St Petersburg before calling it a night. PGR4 is a bit
> better graphically but the extra tracks are what make it a better online
> game.
>
> The most surprising thing was that there are still people playing PGR3 and 4
> online. And there are still idiots who think it's fun to try and spin you
> round all the time - he got kicked.
>
> Both are still very good games but we could have done with a few more
> players. If you've got either game and fancy a retro session post in here
> and I'll set something up.

I would be up for this. I have PGR4 at home so that would get my vote.
Or Forza 3.

--
-Toby
Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.

Tim Miller

Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> wrote:

> I would be up for this. I have PGR4 at home so that would get my vote.
> Or Forza 3.

I have both, but have very few achievements from PGR3 so would be happy to
play that!

Tim (tm)

HarpingOn

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:16:44 +0000, WCZ wrote
(in article <jembu6$g2a$1@speranza.aioe.org>):

> On the day the Xbox 360 was released me, jochta and Northern Deity played
> PGR3 online and it was AWESOME. OMG look at the graphics!
>
> Last night me, jochta and Northern Deity went back to PGR3 and whilst the
> graphics are no longer AWESOME (I thought it held up well, jochta thought it
> was rubbish) we still had a fun old evening of gaming. It took me a race or
> two to get back up to speed with how you drive in PGR but after that we had
> a lot of very close racing which you don't seem to get in the Forza games.
> PGR3 is a bit limited in tracks so after about a hour we moved onto....
>
> ..PGR4 where we spent about half an hour trying to figure out how to get a
> private lobby. Once that was done we had a few close races around the new
> tracks in Macau and St Petersburg before calling it a night. PGR4 is a bit
> better graphically but the extra tracks are what make it a better online
> game.
>
> The most surprising thing was that there are still people playing PGR3 and 4
> online. And there are still idiots who think it's fun to try and spin you
> round all the time - he got kicked.
>
> Both are still very good games but we could have done with a few more
> players. If you've got either game and fancy a retro session post in here
> and I'll set something up.
>
>

PGR4 is £2 in Grainger Games. Have you settled on whether or not this is
happening, and if so, which version?

--
PSN: HarpingOn
XBL: HarpingOn

Toby Newman

On 2012-01-15, HarpingOn <HarpingOn@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> PGR4 is £2 in Grainger Games. Have you settled on whether or not this is
> happening, and if so, which version?

At that price there's no reason not to go wit PGR4.

So, yes, PGR4, it is happenimg.
I'm between PMGs at the moment so any evening after 8pm is good for
me.

--
-Toby
Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.